Transporting, splitting and merging of atomic ensembles in a chip trap
arXiv:quant-ph/0411012 · doi:10.1088/1367-2630/7/1/003
Abstract
We present a toolbox for cold atom manipulation with time-dependent magnetic fields generated by an atom chip. Wire layouts, detailed experimental procedures and results are presented for the following experiments: Use of a magnetic conveyor belt for positioning of cold atoms and Bose-Einstein condensates with a resolution of two nanometers; splitting of thermal clouds and BECs in adjustable magnetic double well potentials; controlled splitting of a cold reservoir. The devices that enable these manipulations can be combined with each other. We demonstrate this by combining reservoir splitter and conveyor belt to obtain a cold atom dispenser. We discuss the importance of these devices for quantum information processing, atom interferometry and Josephson junction physics on the chip. For all devices, absorption-image video sequences are provided to demonstrate their time-dependent behaviour.
16 pages, 10 figures. For associated animated gif files, see http://www.mpq.mpg.de/~jar/ (click on "Atomic movies"). Published version has much better (figure) quality than in the arxiv version, also some minor improvements
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